We started the day off a Dublin's new EPIC museum, which chronacles Irish immigration over hundreds of years. If you are ever in Dublin, I'd highly recommend it. Amazing to see how such a small country has made such a large impact on the world - and not a single lepprechaun in sight ; )
After EPIC, we ate lunch by the Dublin port then hiked up to Grafton Street to do a bit of shopping. We then hightailed it to the GPO to send off a few postcards and back to the apartment in time to tour a neighbouring building - 14 Henrietta Street. I highly recommend this new attraction - a stark look at life in the former Dublin tennements. I think we all walked away with a greater appreciation for just how good we have it.
We capped off our last day in Dublin with supper at The Church - a pub and restaurant in an old, you guessed it, church. This place was beyond cool. It was neat to sip a pint of Guinness in the spot where Arthur Guinness himself got married, or where Sammuel Beckett worshiped.
We will be sad to leave Dublin tomorrow morning but are looking forward to seeing the countryside and what Maeve has started calling, "the real Ireland". Enough city life - time for the green hills and fields. We will be up early to taxi back to Dublin airport to pick up our rental car then drive west for three hours to Killarney. I'm looking forward to giving my feet a break but I'm sure Dan's not looking forward to re-learning how to drive on the left side of the road - wish us luck :)
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